Deus, Justiça Bíblia e Políticos: Aviso!
AVISO!
This book may be harmful to your current peace of mind. Read at your own risk.
Leia este primeiro!
Este é um livro incrivelmente doloroso.
No one should have written it. No one should read it. It should not be necessary. But here it is. God’s heart laid bare for all to critique.
We want justice. We want peace. We want love. We want everything He offers. But do we want Him?
This is the question from the beginning of time. This is the question we were born to answer. Do we want Him?
Esta pergunta pressiona-se a nós enfrentamos um vazio mundo de soluções; mundo clamando por uma alternativa para todas as suas convicções e crenças anteriores; um mundo esmagado por tempo, população, pobreza, distúrbios e doenças devastadoras; uma saudade mundo para sonhar, mas sem visão; uma saudade mundo para mudar, mas sem opções; uma bolha mundo com potencial de uma grande época na história da humanidade, mas sem bater tambor para acompanhar.
He is who we are looking for. He is the dream fulfilled, the one who offers us our destiny. But will we allow Him to be Himself? This is an odd question in a generation that is asking that so strongly for themselves. Let us be us! Fair enough, Deus diz:. But first you must let Me be Me.
Neste livro nós estamos olhando para a justiça política, um dos desejos de cada coração, the cry of billions and the demand of many nation’s people. We have only one concern and that is “what does God say?” There is only one book for us to turn to in this study, que é o livro de Deus. In the Bible God does not say what we want Him to say. He does not tell us how to take power and make our nations good and just. He does not tell us how to legislate sin out of our towns and streets. Ele não nos dá uma estratégia.
Em vez, He tells us our story and His purpose. It is an unrelentingly tragic journey through the history of man. We begin with an amazing vision of possibility for God’s human creation. The cosmos is made for our inheritance. We are co-regents with God in dominion. Perfection, regal authority and eternal comradeship with our maker is all ours. It is breathtaking.
Destino a destruição
De Gênesis capítulo três no entanto, é uma história muito diferente. We are in freefall from sin and beginning with fratricide by chapter six we are all the way to human genocide. What is that all about? Nearly ten generations of human destruction ending in a violent global catastrophic flood. Why even read this stuff. What is the point? Where is God in all of this? Por que não simplesmente ignorar isso e chegar à justiça no Novo Testamento. Porque esta é a história selecionada de Deus e Ele quer nos fazer entender que. Se queremos a Sua bênção, teremos de entender seu pensamento. Você quer que ele ou sua idéia Dele? You have to make a choice
Finalmente, há um pouco de alívio, como Deus chama um homem para pai de uma tribo, uma nova nação para revelar-se. But from the first generation of Abraham there is lying and cheating and difficult alternative families. Within four generations we are back to near fratricide of Joseph and genocide of the Shecemites. This is followed by more than 400 years of slavery as God deals with Abraham’s legacy. Where is the joy here?
A Lei
Reprieve comes again in the form of the Law given to Moses to disciple the nearly free nation of Israel. God begins to speak for Himself and gives clear, concise and very specific instruction for how to achieve justice in a community. Five books, 10 commandments and one small nation should be doable. God is with them. They make a covenant with Him. Finally we are moving forward.
We have some good years and some bad years but it all hits the fan again. 2000 years from Joshua to the last Kings of Israel and total destruction of the promised nation. Sure there are highs and lows. Much of what God wanted is achieved even a certain amount of political justice but then it deteriorates into bloody chaos again.
But then there is David. Sim, nossa melhor líder político, only a murderer and an adulterer. But he had a heart for God? Sim, ele fez. But there is Solomon. Sim, the pinnacle of national history. A man of great wisdom from God in governing but so little wisdom at all in his personal life. The King of Israel’s greatest age and the father of the Kings that will in one generation begin to tear it all apart and take the nation to total destruction. Why read this stuff? Why dwell on this for hundreds of pages? And then we have the Prophets and a few hundred more pages of pain? Surely God wants us to put this awful history behind us and get to Jesus, peace and joy. More than a thousand pages of historic torture for what when we now have the good news of the New Testament.
Existe um ponto?
Não há ponto de Deus! He is telling us who we are, what we were made to be and what we have become. He is telling us what He has had to witness, chorar com, and address in order to bring us back to our destiny. He is telling us the cost, o sofrimento doloroso incessante de Deus e do homem, de toda a criação por causa do uso indevido de nossa autoridade humana, o custo da ignorância, o custo da perdição, the cost of the dream behind giving man authority in the first place. He is telling us everything else has been tried in human history and failed. He is telling us that we want the wrong king, que estamos olhando para o reino errado e cada vez que ele tenta agitar a humanidade na direção certa lhe negamos!
When we reject the Old Testament pain we are rejecting God’s view of humanity and reality. We are saying that we don’t want this God to be God. We don’t want this to be the truth about who we are. We do not what this to be the story. We want Jesus! And Jesus does come.
Queremos que Jesus
When Jesus comes his male peer group is slaughtered. When He comes His own people work with a pagan empire to execute Him. He is not the King they want. “But He is resurrected. He ascends!” He does, e o Espírito vem, the power of God in man to carry out his destiny. "Sim, Esta é a única; this is the King we asked for.” The church explodes and sweeps the known world. “Yup, this is the wave we were waiting for.” But then it begins. Persecution from within, agrupando-se os crentes em crentes; and from without political domination and persecution from Empirical governments with different agendas. The church struggles to be His church and we continue to argue about what kind of King He actually is, todo o caminho até os três primeiros capítulos de Revelação.
Se Ele não veio para nos dar o controle? If He has not come to give us peace and comfort, se Ele não chegou a parar de pecado e violência, então o que é o ponto? Why are we still here, na terra, sofrimento?
Essa é uma questão muito importante e para a resposta que você vai ter que andar com o que Deus tem percorreu e ver o que ele tem visto antes você vai entender o que ele entende sobre a justiça, na terra e no céu.
“Many people have compassion for the lost. I have compassion for God.”
Wynn Fonte
